Container and display box



NOV, 5, 1946. w, WAYNE 2,419,515

CONTAINER AND DISPLAY BOX Filed May 18, 1943 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 W. T. WAYNE CONTAINER AND DISPLAY BOX Nov, 5, 1945.

Filgd May 18, 1943 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 iii/i0; Tacky/16;?

Patented Nov. 5, 1946 CONTAINER AND DISPLAY BOX William Tucker Wayne, Atlanta, Ga, assignor to 7 UNITED STA ES Scripto Manufacturing Company, Atlanta, Ga.,

a corporation of Georgia Application May 18, 1943, Serial No. 487,510

1 Claim. 1

The invention relates to containers of the nature formed of paste-board and has as an object the provision of a container Which may be used to ship goods and when opened, to display them for sale.

It is an object of the invention to provide a device of this character made from a folded blank.

Further objects of the invention will appear from the following description when read with the accompanying drawings showing an illustrative embodiment of the invention and wherem:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device in display position of parts and with one cover removed;

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the device folded for shipment and for storage;

Figure 3 is a detail perspective view showing the manner of erection of one of the corners of the box;

Figure 4 is a plan view, partly broken away, drawn to a scale reduced from the scale of Figures 1 to 3 inclusive;

Figure 5 is a vertical transverse section on line 5-5 of Figure 4, with the compartment divisions and covers omitted;

Figure 6 is a plan View of the blank from which the covers are made; and

Figure '7 is an expanded form of the blank from which the box is erected.

As shown in Figure 1, the device, when erected for display of goods, presents two box portions ill and II connected at one of the upper edges of each by a double hinged portion l2. The outside l2 of one of the boxes is continuous with a projecting portion l3 which, as shown in Figure 2, covers the side id of the box II! when the device is in the position shown in Figure 2 and which stands erect as shown in Figure 1 when the device is erected for display of the goods as upon a counter.

The interior of the boxes Ill and H is shown as divided into compartments by longitudinal members l5 and transverse member l6 notched together. To cover the goods when in display position and to retain the goods in the respective compartments when in the shipping position of Figure 2, each of the open sides of the boxes l0 and H are shown as provided with a cover member I! having tabs l8 and 19 as shown in Figure 6, which tabs are folded downwardly to locate the cover with respect to the open side of the box.

An opening 20 is shown to receive a finger for removal of the cover.

The upper edges of the boxes II] and II are shown as notched at 2!, 22, 23, 24 and 25 for convenience of access to the contents, when it is desired to remove the same.

The blank 26 from which the box is erected, as shown in Figure 7, comprises two halves 2T, 28 which are similar with the exception of the extension of the side 12 to form the projection I3, which projection is not present upon the side I4. The sides 29, 3!} of the two boxes which come into proximity, are shown as connected by the portion [2 and provided with hinged lines 3|, 32. The bottoms 33, 34 of the two boxes are connected to the sides 29, 30 by the hinged lines 35, 36, respectively, which bottoms are shown as continuations'of the sides I2 and [4 at hinged lines 37, 38, respectively.

The ends 39, 40 of the box 10 are extensions of the side 14 at the hinged lines 4 l, 42, respectively, and the ends d3, 44 of the box H are extensions of the sides l2 at hinged lines 45, 46, respectively.

To close the juncture lines of the ends 39, 40 when folded in erected position of the box, with the bottom 33, tabs 41, 48 are shown as projections of the sides 39, 4E] at hinged lines 49, 50, said tabs being freed from the ends of the bottom 33 by slits M, 52. Similar tabs 53, 5 are shown joined at hinged lines 55, 56 to the ends 43, 44 of box I I freed from the bottom 34 by slits 51, 58.

To hold the boxes in erected position, there are shown projecting from the ends 39 and 40 of the box Hi, the tabs 59, 60 formed with ears BI, 62 which, when the box is erected, may be folded to parallel position as shown in Figure 3, one of each pair being passed through the respective openings 63, 64 in the sides 21, 28 and then expanded to the position shown in Figures 4 and 5.

Similar tabs GI, 62 are shown upon each of the tabs 59 projecting from sides 39, 40, 43 and 44.

The side l2 of box H and its extension 13 may be used as a single surface to carry a display advertisement of the contents of the boxes visible when the box is in either of the positions of Figures 1 or 2.

Minor changes may be made in the physical embodiment of the invention Without departing from the spirit thereof, within the scope of the appended claim.

I claim:

In a storage and display box: a pair of rectangular boxes of greater depth than width; one of the maximum area sides of one box formed integral with and hinged to the edge of the adjacent like side of the remaining box whereby, in display position, the two boxes stand side by side with the then upper edges of the two boxes exposed for access to the depth of each; the upper edge of one maximum area outer side of one box terminating flush with the plane common to the upper edges of the ends of the boxes and to the hinged edges of the boxes; the remaining maximum area outer side of the remaining box extending upwardly beyond said common plane 10 about said hinge.

WILLIAM TUCKER WAYNE. 

